Server fails to boot when non-system volume is attached
We are currently receiving the following error from ESXi 5 upon booting one virtual machine:Event Details:Type:infoDescription:Message on Metric-Backup on esxi.spartan.local in ha-datacenter: There is...
View ArticleVMware VIX\vmrun.exe - Error: Unknown error
I have Vmware Server 2.0.2 on Windows Server - I installed VMware VIX and I tried to start virtual machine from command line useing this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T server...
View ArticleNo VMWare Servr Process = Cant Login
VMWare Server 2.0Windows 7 64bit This has been running fine for weeks, but just today, I cannot log in and there is no vmware process running. Checked services and all services are running. See...
View ArticleSlow performance under heavy graphic load
Hi, all: We've been using VMWare Server and VMWare Workstation for more than 6 years in our manual and automated testing procedure, and I'm a real fan of VMWare products, they're incredibly good and...
View ArticleVMware 2 server locking
Good day folks. I have VMware server installed in a machine 2 with CentOS 5.8. All nicely installed and configured. However, when you try to install a new virtual machine with CD-ROM or installation...
View Articlenew virtualization server & gpu
i'm in the process of spec'ing new hardare for a virtualization server for home. decied on ESXi for the OS. some graphics intensive games will be on windows guests and some on linux guests. as for a...
View ArticleVMWare Server 2 continues to plague me
After 2 years, I decided to pull VMWare Server 2 off the shelf and give is another try. I installed the server and when I stared the application I had problems logging into the IVMware...
View ArticleLun sizing
Hi everyone, One thing I keep coming across is sizing application specific datastores. ScenarioWhenever an application requires a dedicated disk, we normally created a dedicated datastore for it. The...
View ArticleGuest network connectivity lost during terminal services logon to host
Hi I have several dell servers running VMware server 2.0.2 on Windows server 2008 R2 On each of these servers I have three or four guests, some guests are running windows server 2003 and others running...
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ie8, FF14 and the Remote Console
Hello Friends, I'm trying to install Ubuntu in vmware server 2 and I experiment two curious behaviours : within FF (14.0.1), the summary/console/tasks/events/permissions tabs do not show up (so no way...
View ArticleVMware guests freezes when initiating snapshots
Hi, We have Vsphere 5.0 and Vcenter, with mixed OS, such as 2003, 2008, 2008 R2. When I initiate the snapshots, if there users still logged on it will freeze and not let them log on un-till the...
View ArticleEdited Hard Drive size of vmdk now wont boot
Hi Guys, I'm quite new when it comes to VMWare and I am running vmware server 2.0. I have a virtual machine that has been humming away nicely for a long time and was setup quite a while a go to host...
View ArticleProblem with programs connecting behind bridged DMZ
Oddly complex question, but if it wasn't, I'd have figured it out after having tried to fix it for 6 hours.... -_- Anyhow, I'm trying to run a server on the virtual machine. The VM is on a bridged...
View ArticleVMWare Server Access failure
Hi there, I'm in a bit of a pickle...... I have a Domain Controller running server 2003SP2 virtualised on vmware server. its a site i have recently taken over support for.... the phsical server is a...
View ArticleDL360G5 disk very slow
Hi all,I have just installed a dl360g5 with Esxi5.0 hypervisor.im trying to convert a vm onto it but its SO slow, i saw this post and wondered if it sounds right? :...
View ArticleVMWare Server 2.0-WIndows 2012 Server
Has anyone had any sucess creating a Windows 2012 VM on VMWare Server via loading an iso image? I tryied loading the iso but keep rebooting, reporting "Your PC Ran into a problem and needs to...
View ArticleUsing Virtual Servers and Mutiple GPUs
Hello All, Is it possible to say... put together a few virtual servers with multiple GPUs that will virtualize around 18 PCs and then assign them around 4 monitors a piece by assigning each virtualized...
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Disk I/O Latency increase
2-5 times a day I get a warning in the events log that looks like this... Device naa.600508b1001c2be40929c423819e3359 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of 5627...
View ArticleVM machine having both Console Access as well as WebAccess
Hi.I have a decrepit, failing 32-bit Linux, and an old 32-bit Win/XP.I decided to upgrade to a new 64-bit, with too much memory and too much (RAID) disk.It was suggested I load ESXi then have my...
View ArticlePort changed
Installed VMWare Server 2.0 on my laptop. It was working for a couple of weeks now without any issues. The shortcut on my desktop for VMware Server Home Page was pointing to "C:\Program Files...
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